AfD
Kompakt, August 27, 2020
[Enrico Komning is an AfD Bundestag member
from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He is a lawyer and here responds to Bavarian
Minister-president Marcus Söder’s call for a second lockdown.]
Herr
Söder’s statements are a fatal signal primarily for our Mittelstand economy.
The
German Mittelstand now primarily
needs stability. The firms must be able to plan their future. That means that
the free commerce of goods and services must remain secure, not only but
primarily within Europe. The endless threats of new restrictive measures,
travel warnings and certainly a second lockdown run counter to every recovery
measure for the especially fleeced Mittelstand
businesses.
The
National Association of the Mittelstand Economy
in its recently published urgent memo is expressly agreed that a general
workplace infection defense ought not lead to a second lockdown.
We,
on the contrary, in the short-term need distinct relaxations of the Corona
measures so as to give the air to required breathe to business and the
productive industries. A regulatory eradication already now threatens many
branches – not just tourism and the restaurant trade. In the mid-term, a
targeted Mittelstand strategy is
needed which frees the small and mid-sized firms from the choke hold of the
concerns and the international speculators. Otherwise, the Mittelstand may die of Corona.
[trans: tem]
